Mitromorphidae

Mitromorphidae
	Shell of Anarithma sublachryma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mitromorphidae; T. L. Casey, 1904
Genera
	See text
Synonyms
	Diptychomitrinae L. Bellardi, 1888; Mitrolumnidae Sacco, 1904; Mitromorphinae Casey, 1904 (new rank);

Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.^[1]^[2]

Bouchet, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Mitromorphinae (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) to the rank of family. This was based on a cladistical analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments.

Description

The Mitromorphidae have small to medium-sized shells with a high biconic mitriform shape, a paucispiral or multispiral protoconch up to 4.5 whorls, a short or indistinct siphonal canal, narrow aperture with up to 3 columellar pleats, indistinct anal sinus on a weakly pronounced subsutural ramp, fairly smooth surface with spiral sculptural elements. There is no operculum, and the radula is relatively short, hypodermic in character with awl-shaped teeth, a swollen solid basal region, and may have a weak barb at the terminal end of the radular tooth.

Genera

This is a list of the accepted names of genera in the family Mitromorphidae (the main reference for recent species is the World Register of Marine Species).^[3]

Anarithma Iredale, 1916
Arielia Shasky, 1961
Cymakra Gardner, 1937
† Itia Marwick, 1931
Lovellona Iredale, 1917
Maorimorpha Powell, 1939
† Mitrellatoma Powell, 1942
Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
Scrinium Hedley, 1922

Genera brought into synonymy

Ariella Shasky, 1961: synonym of Arielia Shasky, 1961
Citharopsis Pease, 1868: synonym of Anarithma Iredale, 1916
† Clinomitra Bellardi, 1889 : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
† Diptychomitra Bellardi, 1889 : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
Helenella Casey, 1904: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
Mitramorpha : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865 (variant spelling)
Mitrithara Hedley, 1922: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
Mitrolumna Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
Vexiariella Shuto, 1983: synonym of Arielia Shasky, 1961

References

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153871 on 2018-02-05
^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J. P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1–2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.
^ WoRMS : Mitromorphidae

Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

External links

Casey T.L. (1904) Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 14, 123–170
Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae

[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153871 on 2018-02-05

[Bouchet-2] Bouchet P. & Rocroi J. P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1–2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.

[3] WoRMS : Mitromorphidae

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